Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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But sales were down 24.2 percent compared with May when the companysold 213,238 units. For the firstr five months of 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford F) sold 620,303 units, compared with 981,150 units duringy the same period a year a 36.8 percent decline. In a sign that buyers might be coming back to the luxuryvehicl market, Ford’s Lincoln division reported that it sold 8,567 units in May, a 2.2 percent increases over May 2008, when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorers, made at the Louisvillwe Assembly Plant on Fern Valley Road, declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 units from 8,122 units a year ago. Sales of the Mercuryg Mountaineer, also made at Louisvillwe Assembly, dropped 45.
2 percent, to 402 from 734 unitse a year earlier. Saleas of F-Series pickup trucks, including Superf Duty trucks made at the Kentuckyh Truck Plant onChamberlain Lane, dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,3811 units, from 42,973 units in May 2008. Sales of Ford Expeditionn SUVs, which began production at Kentuckt Truck Plantin April, declined 40 to 3,150 units from 5,252 unitws a year earlier. Sales of the Lincoln Navigator, also made at Kentucky Truck Plant, droppes 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,329 units a year Ford saw year-over-year gains in some of its car The companysold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.4 percent from the year-earlier period when it sold 18,08u units.
Lincoln sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 percen from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxuruy vehicles. Ford’s Volvo division sold 590 of its S60 up 9 percent fromMay 2008, when it sold 542 Also Tuesday, Ford announced a summerd promotion to draw more consumere to dealerships. Through June 30, the automake r will cover as much as threew months of payments upto $2,100, and its Ford Creditg subsidiary will offer zero percent financing on selecyt Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles.